[PLUG] NFS rpm installation as ROOT

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Tue Jun 29 14:30:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:46:54AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> but disallow RPM install from the same NFS dir?  I do have a firewall
> between machines on my LAN -- call me paranoid, but...
> 
> On 29 June 2004 at 10:08, Russ Johnson <russj at dimstar.net> wrote:
> 
> > What's the error message you get?
> 
> No error message.  It's just that nothing happens and I have to kill 
> the process.

Those two statements together say "check the firewall logs" to me.  
Not that that explains why the `cp` NFS access would be different from 
the `rpm` NFS access.

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